If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Wise Words: Victoria Holt
Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.
Wise Words: Walter Benjamin
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
Wise Words: Carl Sagan: voyage
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
Wise Words: Charles Peguy
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
Wise Words: Meister Eckhart: erase
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
Wise Words: Lillian Hellman
People change and forget to tell each other.
Wise Words: Henry David Thoreau: speak truth
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
Wise Words: William Plomer
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
Wise Words: Isabel Allende
Literature has to be believable while real life seldom is.
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